What's the most annoying phone call you can receive? Double glazing?
Cellphone pitches? You could have won $50,000 - phone this number to
find out? Wrong. The most annoying and intrusive interruption to your
day is from so-called charitable organizations who use psychological
bullying in an attempt to make you their indentured slave.

Indulge me in this rant but I think it's an example of a wider issue
- the creeping fascism that is mandatory community service.

This morning I received a phone call from a charity called Help the
Aged. The woman on the other end informed me that the charity needed
someone to collect money from my local area, put it in a package and
send it out to them.

I politefully informed her that I work extremely long hours and have
very little spare time and that I wouldn't be interested. I expected
this to be the end of the phone call - it was not.

This simpering do-gooder began to question me about what I did on weekends
and immediately it became clear to me that, like a rabid little jack
russell dog, she wasn't going to let go until she had her way. Her job
was to emotionally blackmail me into thinking I was a bad person unless
I sacrificed the shreds of my spare time in the service of collecting
money for a charity that I would later find out funds dubious programs
that have nothing to do with helping old people.

I again politefully informed her that on the very same street that
I live there are several retired yet able-bodied and active persons
who would be happy to do the work and have all the spare time in the
world. The simpering do-gooder remained undeterred.

"Well this one doesn't involve leaving the house," she sneered,
as she implored me to sell raffle tickets to family and friends.

Having had enough of this little bitch dog gnawing at my ankle, I related
how I had donated six large bags full of clothes, all in excellent condition
and several that were never even worn, to the same charity she represented
- and hung up.

The only way I was going to escape being psychologically coerced into
being in the employ of these people was to immediately end the phone
call, but the whole affair still left a decidedly unpleasant aftertaste.

I immediately wished I had gone on the offensive and savaged her attempted
manipulation of my guilt for what it was - an intrusive, bullying and
overbearing effort to enlist me in the conscription of community service.

Help the Aged's website states that the primary bulk of its income
goes not to heating a poor old lady's house in the depths of winter
while they are getting financially raped by the fat cat gas and electricity
companies, instead it goes to "Commissioned research - chosen by
the Charity to provide answers to specific policy research questions
in areas such as crime, transport and health matters."

So by doing work for these people I could potentially be empowering
the very big brother surveillance grid that I vehemently oppose. In
addition, Help the Aged is in partnership with British Gas, which until
recently when they were forced to drop their prices, have run record
profits at the expense of tens of thousands of OAP's (old age pensioners),
who
have died from being unable to heat their homes during winter.

Teaming up with the very corporate looters whose policies have killed
thousands of OAP's - hardly helping the aged is it?

How long will it be until a refusal to perform such services "for
the greater good of the community," becomes a criminal offence?
We're already seeing a pretext being set for this via the global warming
circus.

The EU's new
environmental laws apply right down to the individual and include
picking wild flowers as a criminal offence.

On the streets of Britain, local councils employ snoop squads to follow
people around who drop litter. An immediate £50 fine is issued
and the enforcers frog march the victim to the nearest cash machine.
If the fine cannot be immediately paid, police are called. A Suffolk
teenager who had received awards for recycling was slapped
with such a fine after throwing a chip (french fry) to a hungry
seagull.

Our trash wheely bins are
being fitted with RFID microchips to monitor the amount and type
of trash we throw away. Owners will be hit with extra charges depending
on the weight of the trash they throw away. In many areas of the UK,
recycling is now mandatory, with jail time for refusniks and also prosecutions
for accidentally putting recyclable items in the wrong container.

The creeping fascism of mandatory community service by means of waste
disposal, recycling, and service to charity or local government is part
of the agenda to build a prison planet where the right to be left alone
is completely obliterated.